"WHY SCALES LIE"

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bump and thank you :bigsmile:

This article is awesome - keep it for whenever someone complains they haven't lost any weight on the scales for a few weeks, or think they lost 5lbs of fat overnight

thank you for sharing.
i am apprehensive about the impending increase in my weight when i transition from low carb to low cal and this eases it a bit.

Excellent read.

I am one of those who weigh daily, but I understand so many things can affect the numbers shown.
I weigh daily out of curiosity, not to be trapped by the numbers.

Yep me too.

Bump. My scale has been up and down the same 3 lbs for 2 weeks now. I am confused because I have changed up my workout. Different muscles are hurting now. But it's also been party after party here and I've been eating pizza and burgers, tho usually within my calories. I'm starting to get confused. After reading this article, I went and measured myself and I've lost half inch all over. Still don't totally get it tho...

That explains a lot.....but I still want my scale to go down 20 more lbs!!!

Tape measures lie as well . . . or at least they give wonky results if you use them wrong.

Last week, I saw a sudden drop in my waist measurement. I lost a pound on the scale but more than two inches off my waist. I didn't believe it at first, so I measured twice . . . but was still skeptical. I should have measured three times and used a different tape measure. That morning, I couldn't find the tape measure I usually use. And it turns out that the back of the alternate tape measure doesn't start at the end; it starts 2 3/4 inches from end with a little legend reading, "Start here when using this side." The 5 pound gain in muscle mass needed to explain the drop in waist measurement was too good to be true!



My waist is down a little bit. For the first time, I can use the smallest hole on my belt and actually breath, but the loss is a half an inch or so, not the unbelievable three inch drop I was mismeasuring. I'm not disappointed, but relieved to have solved the mystery. Part of the problem is I weigh and measure first thing in the morning, before food, before coffee, and before totally waking up. Sure prescription for mistakes!

linking this for all my friends

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totally a depressed "scaler" - I keep stopping and starting weighing and I saw earlier in the thread where someone was shocked to see a person who weighs several times a day: that's me. I am scale/weight OBSESSED.

LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Makes me feel alot better when my scale fluctuates throughout the day. But I have slowly progressed in focusing in how I feel physically and how my clothes fit, and how many stairs I can climb before I start huffing and puffing lol as indicators of my fitness increasing instead of the scale. Still an awesome article. Thanks once again!

It's so funny -- your perfect timing, that is... I asked my husband this morning to please hide the scale from me so I can't weigh myself daily; it was undermining everything I'm working so hard for. It became an obsession each morning because it is in the bathroom and so easy to just step on since it's right there. I don't fall face first into food as a result, but the hamster was on it's wheel big time in my head afterwards. Why? Because every time there was a slight fluctuation here and there I would ruminate. I asked my husband if he did away with it and he said, "What scale?" :happy: My hero. Tomorrow morning when I look at the empty space in my bathroom, I will kindly remind myself that I am not a number on the scale and I'm doing just fine so far.